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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading hard drive Date: 30 Jul 2003 22:22:54 -0600 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Art Sable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The SCSI main hard drive in my 7600>G3 (running OS 8.6) is getting crowded, and I would like to replace it with a larger one. I'd like to do the upgrade as simply as possible.
Your procedure should work, but it seems a bit over complicated... Here's my suggestion: A. Run system profiler or Adaptec's SCSI probe to see what SCSI ID's are used. I think the 7600 has two busses, and I bet the external one is completely empty and the old startup drive is ID zero, but it's always nice to check first. B. Open the machine and replace the old drive with the new, including matching its SCSI id. Put the old drive in the external enclosure, partly as a nice backup system. Close everything back up. C. Attach the old drive to the external port. D. Boot either from the CD or the external drive- if there's no system on the new drive, it should automatically find the external one. E. See if you can format the new drive with Apple's drive format utility. If it doesn't work, you might need to use ResEdit to modify the utility to support your drive- a google search for 'resedit "drive setup"' will probably find a page describing the modification, or ask again and somebody will walk you through it. Oh yes, you want it formatted as HFS+, not plain HFS! HFS wastes space on large drives. F. Drag the folders from the old drive onto the new drive. You can drag the entire old drive onto the new drive, but you'll need to move the system folder into the top folder of the new drive. Make sure the system folder is blessed- i.e. that it has the special system folder icon. If it doesn't, drag the finder out of the system folder, drop it on the desktop, then drag it back into the system folder. G. Shut down. H. Remove old drive. I. Reboot and enjoy.
There might be an applescript or two that wants the new drive to be named the same as the old one, so you can rename the new drive. I usually don't bother.
Hey! I thought my way was going to be simpler, but I seem to have about twice the number of steps...
Oh yeah, alternatively you can just give the new drive a unique id (2 is *probably* open) and find a place for it inside the case. Format it, and it'll show up on the desktop, ready for files.
-- Dana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dana:
Thank you very much for your informative reply, from which I learned many important things.
One question, though. You instruct that the System Folder must be in the "top folder" of the new internal drive. If that means at the top of the list of folders on the drive (in List View), I'm uncertain about it. On the old drive, the folders are in alphabetical order, the System Folder is among the S's, and it works fine. If "top folder" means something else, please explain.
BTW, the new internal drive I intend to install is a faster 18 GB SCSI-2 one, driven by an Adaptec SCSI-2 PCI controller, so I any ID will do, in addition to perhaps adding more external drives in addition to the old internal one.
--Gratefully, Art Sable. -- ======================================================== Arthur Sable Sable Instruments, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================================================
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